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AWARD-WINNING PARK REGENT model home by Ladd's is featured pletion this spring. Folks at Ladd's are proud as peacocks about the award in the July issue of Better Homes and Gardens Magazine as winner in its earned by a home their own staff members designed and constructed. You Approved Value Design program. Photo shows home as it neared com- can see this home now. Price is $25,300, one of new model* for 1964. Park Regent Model Wins National Design Award Ladd Enterprises' Park Regent mode! home has earned a high - honor for the McHenry county builder-developer. , It has been accepted by the Better Homes and Gardens magazine for its Approved Value Design program. This Laddcreated model will be featured in the July issue of the national magazine as an Approved VALUE Design home. Roger Ladd. president o f Ladd Enterprises, said a model of this home can be seen at C r y s t a l L a k e . A n o t h e r P a r k Regent is under construction in Woodstock on a private lot and still another is being built at Millstream. Ladd sales personnel at Millstream and Clermont will be happy to conduct visitors on an inspection of this award-winning home, an outstanding value at $25,300. Contest Purpose Given Recognition as an approved Value Design Home by BH&G is aimed at encouraging builders* architects, and p e r s o as concerned with home design and construction to improve their proietsional efforts. The magazine and national manuiacturers sponsor the award program. More than 200 leading builders are participants in this program, meeting high standards of excellence estab 1 i s h e d by B e t t e r H o n r s a n d G a r d e n s . Participants may build one of f i v e p l a n s d e v e l o p e d b y t h e magazine, or they may submit their own creative work. "Our plan for the Park Regent was developed by our own staff," Ladd said proudly. "Our goal is to use conventional construction methods, to use dependable well-known products and to give customers the best possible value for their investment. "It is for this reasoq that we developed our own plan rather than use one of the existing plans. BH&G plans are certainly functional and deserve the award, but they were far too expensive for our price range." ^ "This recoguilion is a tribute to our staif and a compliment to those <cf us who have never wavered from the goal set by our firm's founder, J; R. Ladd, 15 years ago." Four Models On View The Park Regent is. one of [our new r/.odel homes opened this spring at Coventry. These models ere located near the sales office at the spacious development on U.S. Route 14. The Park Regent has five iarge bedrooms, three baths, iwo-car garage, family room, j n d a s e p a r a t e d i n i n g r o o m home has 2,432 square feet of floor space and sells for a total' of $25,300. Six Points Scored 1. Quality of materials and construction. 2. Floor plan. 3. Exterior design. 4. Functional adequacy of living and work a r e a s . 5 . K i t c h e n p l a n a n d equipment. 6. Ade q u a c y and quality of other equipment. Roorfis t)f the Park Regent are divided into three areas of living. The spacious split-level foyer gives a dramatic view of the large elevated living room. A few- steps down lead to a The split foyer entrance lower level family room with gives an open, spacious firstimpression. F our bedrooms .are on the second floor and a patio leads off the recreation roorri, The Approved Value Program of Better H o me s a n d ' gent's 2,432 square feet of floor Gardens includes an evalua- ! space are skillfully distributed tion of house plans by a panel I among four, bedrooms, three o f h o u s i n g p r o f e s s i o n a l s . [ b a t h s , l i v i n g r o o m , d i n i n g ! room. kitchen, recreation room nd den (or fifth bedroom). The home is zoned into a sleeping area and recreation area. The heating system is also zoned with a double forced-a if gas furnace offering separate control of heat for the upper level and lower level. The bedroom area has two bathrobpns--one off the Master bedroom and one Off ttfe halli Bedrooms have large closets-- two in the master bedroom-? with f 1 o o r-to-ceilinJkSl doors. WHISPERING HILLS Retirement years can J filled years ii you live They scored the merits of | V L a d d ' s P a r k R e g e n t d e s i g n paneled walls and a built-in bar with its own stainless steel sink. Large thermopane sliding doors open onto ^a. patio. The award-winning-. Papk:.Re- Paring Hills, the only inc home retirement community ixi the state. It was conceived and is being built by Ladd's. It is o n t h e C h a i n - O - L a k e s , t w o miles north of Fox Lake cn U.S. Route 12. next to the modern kitchen. The 1 against this score sheet: living and working, area, Lire Better in Ladd Homes iilllKSifelS LARGE RECREATION ROOM WITH cos-svGinieni thermopane glass doorway leading So a patio from She lower levol is one feature of ihg» Park Regent home. Wet bar is shown a* left. Stairway in this split lml horn* it ai left, just beyond' camera rang*. This boxna has- a split layer er*iraxics and a two-car garage.